Shade Compass vs Teezee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shade Compass
Visualize the sun's path and your shadow's position throughout the day. Plan outdoor activities, photography, or gardening with augmented reality features and detailed celestial data.
- Live sun and shadow visualization
- Augmented reality sun path
- Object shadow casting
- 24-hour time scrubber
- Golden hour and twilight alerts
- Moon and planet tracking
- Seasonal sun path analysis
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See where the sun will be, where your shadow will fall, and exactly where the shade lands — at any hour, at any spot on earth. Then keep going: garden planning, fishing and hunting windows, UV, air quality, tides, golden hour, and the night sky. Point your phone and the live compass orients to the world around you. Sun direction and altitude sit right on the dial, your shadow is drawn opposite it at true length, and sunrise and sunset are marked at the exact bearings they cross the horizon — with times corrected for the ridge in front of you, not just the flat math horizon. Drag the time scrubber and watch the whole day play out — perfect for a campsite, a patio, a photo shoot, a garden bed, or the shady side of a trail. SEE THE SHADE IN AUGMENTED REALITY • Point the camera and watch the sun's real path trace across your actual yard • Drop a tree, canopy, umbrella, vehicle, pergola, or solar panel and see its true cast shadow • Play a sunrise-to-sunset time-lapse and watch the shade sweep the scene • Tap any spot to read its hours of direct sun — today, or averaged across the year • Scan the whole yard for a full sun-and-shade map (iPhone Pro models with LiDAR) FOR THE GARDEN • "What grows here" — plants scored against your hardiness zone, soil, and measured sun • Frost-anchored planting windows: start indoors, direct sow, transplant, harvest • Projected harvest date and frost margin before you commit to a seed • Lock in a grow plan and push its reminders to your calendar in one tap • Watering guidance from rainfall, evapotranspiration, and a running soil-water balance • A household planner that sizes a garden to actually feed your family FOR ANGLERS, HUNTERS, AND SURFERS • Best Times windows for trout, bass, big game, birds, small game, and surf • Built from sun and moon position, season, and light at your exact coordinates • Fly hatch charts by region, lures with how to fish them, and a reading-water guide • Knot library with step-by-step instructions and a 200-term field glossary • Tides from NOAA harmonic data, plus buoy wave height, period, and direction • River flow and water temperature wherever there's a gauge nearby FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS AND STARGAZERS • Golden hour, blue hour, civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight, and true dark • Sunset quality scored from the cloud layers overhead before you drive out • Starting exposure for the light you're in, plus light direction and polarizer guidance • Moon phase, rise, set, and bearing; visible planets and an AR planet finder • Milky Way, meteor, and aurora windows, with live Kp and solar activity A WEATHER APP BUILT FOR BEING OUTSIDE • Current, hourly, and 10-day, plus a 7-day strip you build from 23 metrics • UV burn timer tuned to your skin type, with safer windows • Air quality with a likely cause — wildfire smoke, ozone, a winter inversion • Weather alerts, frost warnings, and a Lock Screen rain nowcast where available • Thirty years of local storm history and the months that carry the most risk • A plain-language read on whether today is actually worth going outside for ON YOUR WRIST, LOCK SCREEN, AND HOME SCREEN • Apple Watch app — dial, today, live conditions, and best times — plus complications • Widgets for sun, shadow, moon, UV, and the day ahead • Live Activities for golden hour, rain, UV burn, and your next prime window • Ask Siri for a shade report anywhere ANYWHERE, EVEN OFFLINE • Sun, moon, shadow, planting, and every field guide compute on the device itself • 32,000 cities offline, exact coordinates, dropped pins, saved places carried by iCloud • Any date, past or future — plan an October trip, or compare June to December • Month-by-month daylight hours, sun path, and bearings across the whole year One purchase covers iPhone and Apple Watch. No ads. No accounts. No subscriptions. No tracking. No data collection. Just the sun, your shadow, and a straight answer about the day ahead. Frequent and Responsive updates for feature requests and bug fixes!!
Teezee
Visualize time zones as a visual timeline representing each city's day and night cycle. Easily compare times across different locations by dragging a shared cursor, eliminating the need for complex calculations.
- Visual day/night timelines for cities
- Interactive time scrubbing
- Real sunrise and sunset times
- Home city offset display
- iCloud sync across devices
- Map-based city adding
- Extensive city database
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Free to download. Use one home city free; one lifetime purchase unlocks every city and platform. No subscription. Teezee shows every city you care about as a sky — a timeline painted with that city's real night, dawn, day, and dusk, computed from its actual sunrise and sunset. Line them up, and time-zone math disappears: one glance tells you it's breakfast in London, deep night in Los Angeles, and golden hour in Tokyo. Drag any timeline and every city scrubs together, so "does 9am Thursday work for Sydney?" is answered by sliding the cursor there and looking. Download Teezee free and keep using your home city. A one-time lifetime purchase unlocks unlimited cities, widgets, Apple Watch, the Mac menu bar, and every platform. Cities chosen during onboarding stay saved as locked previews until you decide. WHY TEEZEE • The sky is the interface — each bar sweeps through indigo night, violet dawn, gold sunrise, and blue noon exactly when that city does. You read the world's day at a glance, not in numbers. • Scrub time, not spreadsheets — swipe to slide the shared cursor minutes, hours, or days. Every city follows in lockstep. One tap snaps back to now. • Real sun times — sunrise and sunset for each city's actual location and date, visible right on the bar. • Home offsets — pick a home city and every other row shows its offset from home (−8h, +16h), the number you actually think in. • Menu bar clock (Mac) — every city's time one click away, without opening a window. Optionally show a chosen city's time right in the menu bar. • Keyboard-first (Mac) — arrow keys scrub, ⌘N adds a city, ⌘0 snaps back to now. • iCloud sync — your cities and preferences follow you across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. • Current weather — see a small condition icon and local temperature for every city, or turn it off in Settings. • Spatial (Vision Pro) — pin the world's day to your wall in a glass window; look at a timeline and pinch-drag to scrub. • Your labels — rename "London" to "Alice (Eng)" and plan around people, not airports. • 12/24-hour time, seconds display, drag to reorder, light and dark mode. BUY ONCE, EVERYWHERE One purchase unlocks Teezee on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no ads, no personal profiles. Your city list stays on your devices and in your iCloud. Optional weather sends city coordinates only to Apple Weather; optional privacy-preserving usage counts never include city names. Both can be switched off in Settings. Made for people who live in several time zones at once — remote teams, distributed families, frequent flyers, and anyone tired of counting on their fingers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Teezee at Free against Shade Compass's $0.99. Teezee also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days) and device support (5 vs 2). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Teezee is free to download; Shade Compass costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Shade Compass against 5.0 for Teezee. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
Shade Compass ships an update every 10 days, Teezee every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shade Compass | Teezee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.2 GB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ira Seferovich | XenoCode |
Customer experience
Shade Compass
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In-app purchases
Shade Compass
No in-app purchases
Teezee
No in-app purchases
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